last minute gifts blog party | day four

Wow. I am just having a great week! And by the looks and sounds of things . . . it appears you are too! We are seeing some amaaaazing ideas all over our little blog land. We are getting to hear some amaaaazing last-minute gift ideas in Monday’s giveaway post. The one that takes the cake so far? The Spam. Love that. Hey, I used to eat Spam when I was a kid. lol

It’s been a really great week so far! And we still have a little more to come! Yahoo!

The phrase from ‘Beauty in the Beast’ just popped in my head “Let’s see what I got in my draaawerrrs.”

Okay, so maybe they’re Robyn’s drawers.

(And right after I just said that, I grabbed these images to put into the post, and I swear, I didn’t even remember that Robyn had actually done a drawer! I just remembered ‘boxes.’ That is really weird. lol)

This small drawer box was the perfect all-in-one box for my daughter to put a goodie in for her girlfriends for Christmas. We sprayed the box with some silver mist. We die-cut the ‘Joy’ 3 times out of white cardstock and misted them with Studio Calico’s Estate Green and Piglet mist and then layered them over eachother. I can’t wait to fill these with some mini nail polish, lip gloss and a hair flower for her friends!

For the second larger photo box, I die-cut the main box out of some cute Echo Park Chevron paper. I cut the lid out of white cardstock and misted it with silver mist. I cut the Noel out of white and misted with silver as well. The label was die-cut and I sewed around the edges with pink thread. I plan to make some simple holiday gift tags for my neighbors and stick them in these boxes. I think it would be a wonderful gift to receive as you are wrapping up last minute holiday gifts…at least you have a cute homemade gift tag to put on them! :)

Great ideas Robyn! Little decorated gift boxes are sooooo much fun! I think I should make some just to have on hand.

And now for the little freebie!

You can download it for free HERE.

This is no longer available as a freebie, but you’ll be able to get it in a kit at the end of the week! :)

A little snowflake to add to your December projects? Except you folks down in Australia…’cause it’s summer. What do you guys use for Christmas decorations anyway? Do you still do the stuff like we do here in the states?

Hmmm . . . I’m actually kind of interested now to know what kinds of traditions and decorating occur outside the US+Canada. If you’re ‘out there‘, leave a message. I’d love to know what you do!

I know there are readers from all over the world, so this could be really fun for everyone!

Love Love Love the Snowflake…Thank you for sharing all these amazing gift ideas and the free files. I recently discovered your site when I knew I was getting a Cameo and am so happy I did. Love your work!

These are so wonderful, of course with all you talented folks designing and creating and assembling…it’s just a pot roast of awesomeness! So great job everyone and thanks for all the eye candy! I don’t want it to end!!!

Love those photo boxes and what you did with them! I am envisioning lots of cute projects with those! and thanks for the snowflake!

Was looking at above comment (KNKNEWBIE) and I have seen cute ornaments of Santa in the shorts and singlets and drinking a really cool drink..it all makes sense. I thought he was just on vacation but he’s really in Australia! lol. too cute

Hi Kerri, most Aussies still generally do the “European” Christmas Decorations. But myself and more and more are doing the bright hot pink, purples, blues etc round bauble christmas tree without the faux snow icicles and snowflakes. Because Christmas is so hot here we also tend not to clutter the house with decorations because ceiling fans can cause havoc with them. Christmas food is also a very divided thing, some do the hot food and others like our family do prawns, cold ham, salads, ice-cream puddings etc.

Despite the lack of real snow I still decorate with snowflakes & snowmen for Christmas in Australia. They are just so cute that I don’t care that it is really 40 degrees! Maybe they cool everybody down by looking at them – I will certainly put today’s snowflake to good use – thanks!

Kerri,
Thank you for all the adorable freebies this week.
However, I can not get them to download at all. I have not been able to get a single one.
I have a TON of your kits so I am familiar with the process, but the google docs just wont download. I select the studio version.I select download on the drop down tab.
Then I get a pop up at the bottom of my screen that asks
“save” or “save as” or cancel. I have tried both and still nothing. When I go to the “document” tab I can see some of them there but when I say “open” if goves me an error “No preview available”
What am I doing wrong? Anyone can chime in , I am open to suggestions. Thank you.